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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"air rights"”.
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Air rights development of urban transit corridors
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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New opportunities for Boston's Chinatown : turnpike air rights
… and cultural facilities. The proposed Turnpike Air Rights new development is a great challenge as well as a good opportunity for Chinatown. In this thesis, the research and design of the gateway site of Turnpike Air Rights (Parcel 20-23) is aimed to explore the solutions to the these problems. …
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Proposal for Illinois Central Air Rights Property, Chicago, Illinois.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1968. M.Arch.
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Air rights development : is it different from traditional land development?
… urban development sites continues to diminish. Air rights development is an innovative way for real estate entrepreneurs to create space for developing large-scale projects. Because a portion of these projects are constructed on air, one would expect the deal structure for an air rights …
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Development plan for the air rights at South Station transportation center
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.
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Finance of the fallow firmament : valuing air rights in contemporary Manhattan
… has renewed public interest in the use of air rights in New York City. Despite widespread media attention and studies by community groups, examination of transferable development rights usage in New York has not included the application of rigorous financial analysis. This paper first …
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A museum about the city: an air rights proposal for Boston
… If this proposal were carried through, fifteen air-rights parcels (approximately twenty acres) would become available for development in Boston’s inner core. This thesis explores one possible way of using a specific air-rights parcel above the proposed tunnel.
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A conceptual analysis of air rights development over the urban transit corridors of Boston
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Creating sustainable air rights development over highway corridors : lessons from the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston
Research and practice have shown that air rights development over highway corridors in America's cities is not only feasible, but desirable. As planners, policy makers and consumers attempt to curb the sprawling development pattern that was characteristic of the second half of the twentieth …
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Work, worship and performance : integrating the office building development
… the design of an office building which uses the air-rights to an existing church/performance hall. In the design, I try to acknowledge and express underlying economic relationships -- in particular, the funding of cultural facilities by revenue-generating office space. I give a form to each of …
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Boston Garden and North Station area : building the architectural infrastructure for development
… ownership have made available for development air rights parcels above existing buildings and, in particular, transportation systems. Some cities, including Boston, have chosen to develop these air right parcels after development had exhausted all downtown real estate. These parcels above …
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Prototypes of transportation nodes with high density and mixed-use to be applied to Pearl River Delta Region
… top would create revenue generated from land and air rights leases and also other forms of economic benefits that flow to the station properties. Hence, these wider benefits would allow government to subsidize investment in new railway projects, or to prop up existing lines.
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Aerial Empire: contested sovereignties and the American West
… and political history to argue that air shaped the United States’ colonization of the intermountain west. By focusing on environmental management and federal-Indian policy, it shows how claiming and regulating air as a natural resource both supported and subverted the nation’s control …
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SIlver Tower - A New Paradigm for Tall Building Design
The events of September 11, 2001, seemed to many to presage the end of the skyscraper as an urban form. Some 15 years later, the skyscraper is more prevalent than ever before, owing to its unique advantages over other building forms in an urban, environmental, and sociological context. Skyscrapers …
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BRIDGE SCAPE
This thesis strives to pursue an alternative in tackling the land shortage issue in Singapore by using existing negative spaces that are formed due to the presence of the expressways. With around 60% built up area on its 716km2 land, Singapore has applied and envisioned some strategies in …